The extrajudical transfers have been periodically halted pending improvements. However, given the lack of transparency, oversight, and accountability it's unclear whether improvements, if any can be effectively monitored, measured, and maintained.

Hopefully, the Afghanistan Interrogation and Torture Centers have not become “wink and nod” substitutes for our illegal and lawless Guantanamo Interrogation and Torture Center2?

The President has transferred 15 more religious zealots from our Guantanamo Interrogation and Torture Center over the perpetual objections of the religious zealots in Congress—sixty-one still in perpetual detainment.

[...]ABA therefore calls on the administration to undertake a new, comprehensive review and accounting of all available evidence and, if warranted, to initiate “appropriate proceedings against any persons who ... committed, assisted, authorized, condoned, had command responsibility for, or otherwise participated in such violations.”[...] --ABA Letter Dated June 23, 2015--

Mr. President, changing the religious zealots, in Congress, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan or elsewhere is best left to "prayer and God"—fortunately, we need not await a response before acting in accordance with the rule of law.

Mr. President, continuously chanting "this is not who we are" sounds like an ethereal prayer to the religious zealots in Congress, which is ineffective at closing the Guantanamo Interrogation and Torture Center.

It's surreal and unnecessary to debate our leaders responsible for authorizing torture or those participating in the torture of detainees over the irrelevant assertions that their torture was effective.

If our torturers think the effectiveness of torture justifies its authorization or usage then let them assert this during their war crimes trial at The Hague.

Kudos to our President for finally and formally acknowledging what has been obvious to most—America secretly, wrongfully and illegally tortured some detainees.

The formal acknowledgement occurred at the end of yesterday's (Friday) forty plus minute press chat. After, the President feigned disappointment that nobody from the White House press corps had, yet, wished him a happy birthday he responded to two additional questions. (Monday is the President's birthday—Happy Birthday Mr. President!)

The entire unredacted Senate torture report (not just a six-hundred page redacted executive summary) must be released and the Guantanamo Interrogation and Torture Center system immediately shutdown. Any detainees which cannot be transferred and tried in a regularly convened court of law must be released or heldguardian ad litem or its equivalent until such time as that detainee can be tried, released or naturally dies, at no costs to themselves.

It's difficult to imagine a more effective governmental method for guaranteeing citizens hold the rule of law in contempt.

Although, the European court's action are unlikely to forestall any CIA implosion, it's actions are nevertheless a welcomed voice in opposition to the proposition that any nation can publicly parrot adherence to the rule of law while secretly adhering to the rule of force, violence, and torture.

...all while chanting "weeee... are exceptional" and lecturing other nations on the benefits of developing a respect for the rule of law!

Modern methods of torture and kangaroo proceedings that opaquely continue at the Guantanamo Interrogation and Torture Center, Cuba, behind untested claims of state secrecy, national security, arbitrary measures and impervious classified data has fatally impaired constitutionally adequate due process under law.

How simultaneously hilarious and bizarre that those investigating the usage of torture would send their final report to the torturers for redaction—you can't make this stuff up!

Not to worry, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Chairman of the Select Senate Intelligence Committee has publicly expressed her hope that the redactions will be kept to a minimum—really, you can't make this stuff up!

Our torturers may be thwarting subsequent investigation and disclosure of their torture activity utilizing the same tortured "Commander in Chief" logic (aka Unitary Executive) so prevalent during King Bush the Idiot's reign?

"Under recent Supreme Court law, however, we are compelled to conclude that, regardless of the legality of Padilla’s detention and the wisdom of Yoo’s judgments, at the time he acted the law was not “sufficiently clear that every reasonable official would have understood that what he [wa]s doing violate[d]” the plaintiffs’ rights. Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, 131 S. Ct. 2074, 2083 (2011) (internal quotation marks omitted).

We therefore hold that Yoo must be granted qualified immunity, and accordingly reverse the decision of the district court."--CA9, 09-16478--

Wasn't Yoo et al. the "reasonable official(s)" that worked so hard obfuscating and misdefining torture--excluding mistreatment short of organ failure or its equivalent from torture (Torture Memos)?

The appellate panel reasoned that: Yoo is entitled to qualified immunity, however, because it was not clearly established [by our Supreme Court] in 2001-03 that the treatment to which Padilla says he was subjected amounted to torture.

There is something unsatisfying about appellate court logic that uses obfuscation to simultaneously enable and excuse the inhumane treatment of human beings, notwithstanding long established, well-known and applied conventions against the inhumane treatment of all human beings.

1. The report makes a series of recommendation applicable to a variety of intra and inter state actors—those applicable to "To Troop Contributing Countries and Concerned States":

"Suspend transfer of detainees to those NDS and ANP units and facilities where credible allegations or reports of torture and ill‐treatment have been made pending a full assessment.

Review monitoring practices at each NDS facility where detainees are transferred and revise as necessary to ensure no detainees are transferred to a risk of torture.

Review policies on transferring detainees to ANP and NDS custody to ensure adequate safeguards and use participation in joint operations, funding arrangements, the transition process, intelligence liaison relationships and other means to stop the use of torture and promote reforms by NDS and ANP.

Build the capacity of NDS and ANP facilities and personnel including through mentoring and training on the legal and human rights of detainees and detention practices in line with international human rights standards.

Increase efforts to support training to all NDS and ANP interrogators and their supervisors in lawful and effective interrogation methods, and alternative investigative approaches (such as forensics)."

As with all human endeavors, general increases in literacy and education levels will have a positive effect on Afghanistan civil society structures, especially the literacy and education of children and women.

A congressional committee chairperson sending a purported classified report on King Bush the Idiot and jesters' torture episodes for presidential comment or a decision on making the torture transparent and public is surreal, absurd and as lawless as the torture it reportedly describes!

Neither a senate committee chairperson nor our president nor other persons nor other entities possess the authority to render opaque any torture episode.